Nominet reveals first DNS tech funding recipients
Nominet has revealed the five organizations set to receive a share of up to half a million dollars of grants to fund their DNS software projects.
The recipients of the “up to £370,000” tranche of funding are all infrastructure plays that provide foundational infrastructure but generally find it difficult to find financial backing.
Nominet said the funded projects, many of which will be very familiar names to those in the industry, are:
- Internet Systems Consortium. The money will be used to improve performance and scalability of the popular BIND 9 name server software.
- OARC . The money will fund development of the Validns zone file validator.
- OpenSSL Foundation. Funding will steer development of the OpenSSL open-source library.
- NLnet Labs. The cash will help fund development of Cascade, a DNSSEC signing package currently in alpha.
- Quad9. The funding will help pay for the operation of the Quad9 recursive DNS service.
Nominet has previously said that its DNS Fund, paid for out of .uk domain sales revenue as part of the registry’s public benefit commitments, will operate in multiple rounds, but dates for subsequent rounds are not yet published.
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